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February 10 is Umbrella Day? Why? I don't know, but a lot of those "what national holiday is today?" calendars agree on February 10 being some sort of Umbrella Day. When it's "National Umbrella Day", I can't even tell what nation it's from. Oh well. Around here, umbrellas are used more for catching updrafts from below than for blocking rain from above.

In 2024, I didn't post any questionably unsafe spacesuits. So, here's one Eureka Seven character designer Kenichi Yoshida drew for a Swedish jazz cover band. In space, nobody can hear you play your saxophone through your helmet.

Hi there, Ghibli fans, whatever nickname you creatures have for yourselves. I found this and I wanted you all to see it too. This even has Neko no Ongaeshi and Castle of Cagliostro, two of my favorites, and they normally get left out of all these crossovers.

I'm overthinking this. I know most of these characters aren't even floating. Is that reason enough not to show you this giant Ghibli mashup? I crossposted this to [email protected] too.

Interesting. It's a shame they're not on the Fediverse, but at least they have an RSS feed that you can read in readers like Feedly.

Doxxing regular people as fascists? No way. Don't do that on Mbin or Lemmy. Legally, we don't want to touch that with a ten foot pole. Take that stuff somewhere else at your own risk.

Now, doxxing organizations that support fascists? Go for it! Companies are not people. I'm working on a list of organizations that donated to the orange turd's campaign, showed up to his inauguration, display a fascist flag, or otherwise outed themselves as Nazi sympathizers. We need to bring the boycotts back.

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Arcade

A timeless masterpiece of 2D fighting with beautiful sprite work and a banger soundtrack. Other fighting games come and go, but we still play this one online and in tournaments 25 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmxOO-A3i7w

Ride Like THE Wind!

I still boot this game up every now and then to knee fools across the screen. I need to try the PC Engine CD remake someday.

My all-time favorite game. It's peak 2D Mario. SMB3 speedrunning is fun. Glitches are fun. It will challenge you, but almost every level is fair.

NES version really showed off what the MMC3 chip can do. Super Mario All-Stars has a surprisingly deep 2-player Battle Game based on Mario Bros. Wii U/Switch versions of Super Mario Advance 4 contain all 38 e-Reader levels with some wild new gimmicks and combinations.

There are better Zelda games. ALTTP is clever, for sure, but the path through the game has too many obtuse moments. I don't know how I would have gotten through it the first time without Nintendo Power magazine. I liked Link's Awakening and Link Between Worlds more, though without Link to the Past, we wouldn't have those games.

Now, the Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer is an incredible achievement and a must-play for people who have finished both original games.

In Japan, 2/4 is Puyo Day!...well OK, Puyo Day is already over because of time zones, but whatever. Yu debuted 21 years ago in ~~Yu: Dead and Loving It~~ Puyo Puyo Fever, but we wouldn't see her or her brother Rei again outside Japan until Puyo Puyo Tetris.